Sales Director

Our client is a leading supplier of soft furnishings and catering supplies into the aviation industry. This long established family run textiles business is looking for someone in a sales leadership capacity who has experience leading, developing and growing a sales. We are looking for a hands on individual who can work in both small enterprising business but also within the larger more corporate environment. Your end users are the airlines - it is essential that you have experience working in the global aviation industry (airlines) and can demonstrate success within the field.

This exciting position offers a global reach and huge development opportunities. It is essential that you enjoy travelling as part of your role and can balance this with leading a small but growing team.

Some of the desired duties and responsibilities are as follow (but by no means limited):

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement sales strategies
• Prepare operational and financial sales department reports
• Oversee the management, learning, and career development of the sales team
• Directly coordinate cross-selling and joint marketing initiatives to maximize exposure and profitability
• Work very closely with the leadership and design teams on NPD and futureproofing the business.
• Exceptional account management and relationship building skills
• Ability to create corporate presentations, tender applications, pricing and competent with public speaking (events/shows etc)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years' of sales leadership experience
• 10+ years' of experience in sales
• Must have experince selling into the Airlines
• Textiles / Design experience desireable but not essential